Lesson 762 of 1570
When AI Agents Mess Up: Recovery Mode
Agents WILL make mistakes — this lesson teaches you to spot, stop, and undo agent errors.
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What this lesson covers
Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1The big idea
- 2agent failures
- 3recovery
- 4safety
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Section 1
The big idea
Agents fail. They send wrong messages, delete the wrong file, or loop forever. The skill isn't avoiding failure — it's noticing fast and undoing cleanly.
Some examples
- Agent sent an unfinished email — apologize, send a follow-up, learn the lesson.
- Agent deleted a calendar event — restore from undo or backup, set safer permissions.
- Agent looped on the same task for 20 minutes — stop it, check the log, fix the prompt.
- Agent confidently invented a fact — remove it, add a 'verify before sending' step.
Try it!
Think of one task you'd give an agent. Write down what could go wrong and exactly how you'd undo it. That's your safety plan.
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